Not familiar with this, but I assume measures are taken so that we don’t accidentally share memory content between different processes through slabs? That seems a pretty straight forward security consideration.
Building profiles of senders can be necessary, e.g., for detecting spammer accounts.
Also, email is transmitted in plain text. Sending an email is more like shouting to your friends in the street, rather than putting a letter into an envelope mailed to the recipient. Thus, I don't think an explicit consent is needed.
That said, I understand that fair use of such information is a concern.
Why does the title mention HP only? Seems that any Windows computer using Conexant audio chips + driver will have the same problem. Pinning this on one specific manufacturer feels weird to me.
oh come on, how about stopping trophy hunting of lions?
it annoys me that some western people are so apt to play the game of blaming China, just to take the moral high ground, but not to actually solve problems.
I'm not saying that China is not blamable. it is. but so is any other country, group, even individual. the media bias is just disgusting. can we please try to understand each other and figure out ways to solve problems?